Nobuyuki Matsuda

Nobuyuki Matsuda (16 April 1892-4 August 1970) was a Lieutenant-General of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Pacific War.

Biography
Nobuyuki Matsuda was born on 16 April 1892 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Matusda joined the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1910 and graduated in 1914, proceeding to graduate from the Army War College in 1922. Matsuda rose in the ranks during the Interwar Years, and he took command of the IJA 20th Infantry Division. In December 1941, his division embarked from Japan to take part in the invasion of the Netherlands' East Indies possessions, and his army occupied western New Guinea. He was headquartered at Mink by June 1944, when the US 24th Infantry Division and US 33rd Infantry Division launched an offensive against the Japanese in Mink, forcing them back. Matsuda was forced to surrender when his army was trapped against the coast, and he was paroled after the war's end. He died in 1970 in Kyoto.